WEST AFRICA.
LONDON, November 12. SPEAKING at Acton, Middlesex, Lord George Hamilton snid additional British forces would bo despatched to Niger, West Africii, under command of Major Milne. Thirty special officers had already been sent out to West Africa, and sixteen others were about to sail for the same destination. Colonel H. P. Nortbcotfc, of the Leinster Regiment, who served with the Ashanti expedition in 1895, is to command the expedition to the Gold Coast Hinterland. Major Lugard will operate inland from Lagos toward.; Boussa. The latter town is the destination of the gunboats recently despatched. The Times, commenting on the sittings of the Anglo-French West African Delimitation Commission, says the retention of the right bank of the River Niger as far east as the 12th parallel should be made the irreducible minimum of the British territorial claims.
It is reported that the British Government insists on the French evacuating Boussa, in West Africa.
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Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 210, 16 November 1897, Page 3
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